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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-American writer and Nobel Prize-winning author known for his Yiddish-language stories that explore Jewish life, folklore, and themes of spirituality, identity, and morality. His works often delve into the complexities of human nature, blending realism with mysticism. In his story, “A Wedding in Brownsville,” Singer tells the tale of a man named Dr. Margolin, who returns to Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood for a wedding after many years. As he reconnects with familiar faces, he is haunted by memories of his past, including lost love and the horrors of the Holocaust. The story explores themes of memory, guilt, and the enduring impact of trauma on personal identity and relationships. Q: Who were the Senciminers? Ans. Sencimineers were Jewish villagers from the town of Sencimin, where Dr. Margolin once lived. They are now dispersed due to the devastation of WW II, and some of them attend th...
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Romantic Age in English Literature

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  Characteristics of Romantic Age Experimentation with Poetic Form When we read the Romantics now, they seem old-fashioned. They say things like, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." To the modern ear, this stuff can seem pretty old school. But actually, the Romantics were groundbreaking in terms of challenging poetic tradition. What the early Romantics—especially William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—wanted to do was revolutionize the way poetry was written. They wanted to make poetry conversational. They set out to write poems that used the language of ordinary speech, but which were still beautiful and poetic. This was the big project of  Lyrical Ballads , the collection of poetry by Wordsworth and Coleridge that marked the beginning of the Romantic period. Nature in Romanticism The Romantics had a huge crush on nature. They loved trees, flowers, mountains, clouds, crags, birds etc. As long as it wa...
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